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The Presidium of the Court of the Kamchatka Territory canceled the decision to recognize the extremist cartoon Donald Duck and Fascism, Kamchatka-Inform reports . The court considered the cassation of the prosecutor for the verdict issued in 2010 to a resident of Kamchatka Stanislav Semenov under part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity).

Then Semenov was sentenced to six months of imprisonment conditionally for placing extremist materials on the Internet, including the mentioned cartoon. As noted by the Sova Information and Analytical Center, in August 2014 the cartoon entered the federal list of prohibited materials at number 2030, together with a large number of audio and videos published by Semenov.

"In a cassation performance, the prosecutor asked the verdict to change by excluding the video" Donald Duck and fascism (forbidden series) "from the list of materials recognized as extremist, since this video is the classic cartoon of Walt Disney studio, shot within the framework of the anti -Hitler propaganda company, it contains no calls for extremism or extremism or extremes The propaganda of fascism, the ideology of fascism are shown in a caricature form of anti -Hitler character, ”the court said.

At the same time, it turned out that the examination conducting in 2010 recognized the cartoon with extremist material, not even looking at it. “In particular, from the description of the study, it follows that this audiovisual material contained in the Donald Duck and Fascism file could not have been characterized from a sociological point of view, since the file was not opened for viewing. The absence or difficult to establish linguistic elements expressing negative assessments, negative attitudes, encouraging actions directed against anyone,” the regional said.

From the resolving part of the sentence of the court of first instance, "the court decision on the recognition of the audiovisual material - a video -sorcerer contained in the electronic file" Donald Duck and Nazism ", extremist material" is excluded. In the rest, the verdict was left unchanged.

Under the distorted name "Donald Duck and Fascism (forbidden series)" is meant the cartoon of Walt Disney studio from the Donald Daka "Der Fuehrer's Face" ("Fuhrer's face"). It was shot in 1942 as part of the anti -Hitler propaganda campaign in the United States during World War II. Director Jack Kinny received an Oscar for him.

In September 2015, the court fined two inhabitants of the BUT Seversk Tomsk Region for 3 thousand rubles each under Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials). They were guilty of publishing the audio recordings "Horus SS - Aryan Honor", "Choir SS - White Power", as well as the video "Donald Dag (forbidden series)." So in the verdict this time a classic cartoon was called.

The case was opened by the prosecutor's office of the closed city according to the Federal SBSB information in the Tomsk region on the placement of materials included in the federal list and prohibited in Russia in the social network.